Tag-holder.



'PATENTED JUNE 6, 1905.

H.- E. HESSELTINE.

TAG HOLDER. APP- LIGATION FILED 001. 26,1904.

erbefi R as eld I 3 UNITED STATES Patented June 6, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

- HERBERT E. HESSELTINE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGN OR TO WINFIELDNAIRN MACQUEEN, OF MARSHALL, MICHIGAN.

TAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters iliatent No. 791,692, dated June6, 1905.

Application filedOctober 26 1904.. Serial No. 230,138.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT E. HESSEL- TINE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTag-Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

' My invention relates to improvements in tag-holders; andits object isto provide a convenient means for holding price tags or cards havingthereon any marks or other matter to be displaced on various goods; andit consists of the combination and arrangement of various elements andfeatures, as hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointedout in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure l is a front elevation of the holder proper with variousdisplay-cards therein; Fig. 2, a Vertical section of the same on theline 2 2 of Fig. 1 and with a flexible strip attached; Fig. 3, atransverse section on the line 3 3 of Figs. 1 and 2.

Like letters refer to like parts in all of the figures.

The holder proper consists of a substantially rectangular plate A, ofsuitable material, preferablyof sheet metal, such as tin, and having itsedges folded, as at B C, to form vertical grooves to receive suitablecards G, H, and I, which may be of different vertical widths, with theupper parts exposed, as shown, or a single larger card, as convenient.

A bottom stopF is provided, which consists of a forwardly-projectingportion of the plate. To support this plate or to attach it to articles,I provide various means, as follows: I form a clip D in the plate bysevering two sides of a rectangular portion of the plate and pressingthe severed part backward to engage the back side of the spring-cliphereinafter described, the other side of which is engaged by the back ofthe plate A. To secure the device to the edge of an article, I provide aspring-clip formed of a flexible strip of material, as at E, having anabrupt bend near the upper end to form a shoulder to engage the underedge of the clip and having a broad upper end above the bend adapted tobe inserted between the clip and the back of the plate. The lower end ofthe strip E is bent toward the back of the plate and yieldingly engagesthe same, and thus the edge of anarticle may be thrust between the clipand plate, and the plate thus supported thereon. By bending the strip Eaway from the plate at the bottom, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig.2, it may be used to support the plate in an inclined position upon anyplane surface. I also provide a hook, as at M, Whereby'the plate may besuspended from or upon an article by inserting the hook therein. I

am thus able to use the device to support and display a suitable tag ortags upon a great variety of articles and in a great variety ofsituations.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In a tag-holder a plate adapted to support a tag and having a portion.severed at opposite sides and pressed out of the plane of the rest ofthe plate to form a clip, and a strip of flexible material bent near,one end to form 'a shoulder to engage the under edge of the HERBERT E.HESSEL'IINE.

Witnesses:

W. N. MAO UEEN, AGNES E. YELL.

